We’ll try today to bring some icons to be used for the UI of the iPhone. Like the ones below: The icons should be grayscaled, as the operating system will take care of all the graphic effects –  like the nice aqua gradient, or the background of the button. Some of the resources presented are [...]

Today I will try to add more resources on the Javascript graphs utilities to create attractive and more intuitive data sets presentations( graphs ). RGraph HTML5 – graph library – yes HTML5 so IE users – change your browser, or use google frame. The library uses the latest CANVAS features and is fully documented on the site. [...]

It’s been a year and a half  since I moved on OsX.  Coming from the Linux world it wasn’t that hard  to get used to the new operating system. At that time I had some issues to make the perfect selection of softwares and tools I need for my work. My expertise is PHP, JS  [...]

Due the limited number of fonts available for web we need to make use of other techniques to make our design look the way we want. Most of the time we simply cut the image from the psd file and place it in the html/css. But this has impact over the accessibility of the site [...]

Phonegap is a nice framework for webdevelopers. It helps to build a native iPhone (and other devices) app using what you already know. But the submission to Appstore  can be a pain due to some app reviewers that consider PhoneGap as “private api”. The single way to avoid this is to change any reference to [...]

Following the previous post, we will see today how to check the syntax for JS. In this case we will need a bundle wrote some time ago by Andrew Dupont here. (read the article , scroll down and download the bundle).  Install the bundle. In this moment you are almost good to go, as the bundle [...]

A nice “hidden” feature that Textmate has is to check the syntax of the php files you are writing and display a popup with the result. How to do this? Open Bundle Editor, search for the PHP bundle, scroll down until you find the Validate syntax command. Edit the Save setting to Current File. Now, [...]

As the guys from Mozilla say “The JavaScript shell provides a simple way to run scripts in batch mode or an interactive environment for exploratory programming.” So basically you can create some tests for you app based on javascript without needing a browser, but using rhino. With Mootools is a little complicated, as it needs [...]

Everybody knows SVN and “everybody” is using it. No doubt SVN is one of the best things that happend in the last time. but for a web developer, svn can be a little frustrating – at least for me. Let me explain: I am on a mac, a G4 one,so I cannot afford a MAMP [...]

Kroppr is an unobtrusive script that willenhance any site that wants to offer an image cropping tool for its visitors. Unlike other scripts, Kroppr is able to ROTATE, zoom and move the image in the real time without using plugins – flash or java. The actual picture crop is done after the user is satisfied [...]